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Mana's story

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Description: Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1999]
Call number: 660981
Creator: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 044841712X; 9780448417127; 0399233504; 9780399233500
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Associated people: Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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In the palace of the Khans

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Dirzhan is a strange little country up among the mountains way out east. It has one foot in the middle ages and one in the age of the internet, and its President Kahn is a ruthless modern dictator who lives in a fantastic old palace riddled with secret passages. Only the old eunuch who looks after the Kahn's daughter Taeela knows where they can run. Nigel is on a visit to his parents when he is asked to spend time with Taeela to improve her English accent, so he is actually present when the Kahn is assasintated in from of their eyes. Now those haunted passages come into their own, allowing them to escape from the palace and make their way through a country in turmoil, find allies up in the mountains and return to the palace by the way they came with a band of followers, so that Taeela can avenge her fathers death.

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Each of these stories touches on the idea of a twin, ghostly double of a live person, or a secret self.

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